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Category Archives: Ghosts
A Christmas Walk: With Ghosts on Baysdale Moor
I AM wary of the North York Moors because they are more than a little bit sinister. They are wild and empty, peppered with the scratchings of forgotten people, laced with legends, and punctuated with the stumps of ancient crosses … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Captain James Cook, Cleveland Way, Death, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Hunting, Industrial archaeology, Legends, Mountains, Politics, Ranting, Ruins, Teesside, Walking, Weather
Tagged Cleveland Hills, Mining History, North York Moors, outdoors, WPLongform
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Black Gold, Tan Hill Tea
THERE was a loose plan fluttering about this morning like a threadbare flag above a roadside burger bar. But the wind changed and the plan got blown across fields and was last seen snagged on a fence alongside a ragged … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Environment, Footpaths, Geology, Ghosts, Hiking, History, horse gins, Industrial archaeology, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Tan Hill Inn, Teesdale, Walking
Tagged Cumbria, Mining History, outdoors, Pennines, transportation, WPLongform
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Cross Fell – Fiends, Rivers, Paths and Poets
A walk up Cross Fell and down the Tees and Tyne . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Legends, Life, Mountains, Pennine Way, Poetry, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Religion, Rivers, Teesdale, Teesside, Tyneside, Walking
Tagged Cumbria, Lake District, outdoors, Pennines, The Lakes, WPLongform
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A Pennine Trek, Part 3 – Hell and High Walking
The concluding episode of McEff’s Pennine walk . . . Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Death, Drove roads, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Ranting, Walking
Tagged outdoors, Pennines
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A Pennine Trek, Part 2 – A Night Beneath Hangman Hill
McEff continues his backpacking trip to Hexham . . . Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Climbing, Death, Drove roads, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Walking, Writing
Tagged outdoors, Pennines, transportation, WPLongform
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Causey Pike – A Country For Old Men?
NEAR the summit of Causey Pike, where the heathery track gives way to steep rock, an elderly man sits on a boulder. He’s wearing a wide-brimmed hat and his white hair wisps about his ears. I get the impression he’s … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, Life, Mountains, Walking, Writing
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, Pennines, The Lakes
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South of the Border, Down Cheviot Way
A walk along the boggy border between Scotland and England . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Death, Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Walking
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, Scotland, The Lakes
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Walking the Old Corpse Road – Mardale to Shap
THE last person to leave Mardale feet first for Shap was John Holme, in June 1736. Poor old John was as dead as they come. Whether he was strapped to a packhorse or nailed in a coffin and carried on … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Camping, Corpse roads, Death, Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, The Lakes
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The Dodds, the Coach Road and the Railway Wagon
North of Helvellyn, on the Old Coach Road, and the mysterious railway wagon . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Industrial archaeology, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Walking
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, Scotland, The Lakes, transportation
22 Comments
East is East from Stainmore Summit
Walking the trackbed of a Pennine railway into the east and a changing world . . . Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Life, Mountains, Newsquest, Northern Echo, Politics, Ranting, Walking
Tagged Pennines
15 Comments
Souther Fell, Blencathra – and the Ghost Army
HEAVY rain and high winds on the fells. Not ideal weather for walking – but good enough for hunting ghosts on Souther Fell and Blencathra . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Lake District, The Lakes
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